James Corkhill

OK here goes, the idea of this is to get to know more about people I guess. The way it works is I take 5 things someone has given me, that they feel that they associate with me and I write about them- simple eh? Then… if you want to you comment and ask me for 5 things about you!

Zoe gave me these: dogs, computers, Aberystwyth, wedding, & softie!

So let’s begin!

Dogs

I love dogs, I have to really. I was brought up in a house full of Norwich Terriers (Awful website but you get the picture), my mum breeds them so we always had a minimum of about 4 or 5 of them, up to about 9; and of course breeding involves puppies so I was brought up baby sitting puppies not a brother or a sister! I also frequented many a dog show as a child, whether I liked it or not (it could get a bit boring!), because my mum also shows the dogs that turn out good enough! Those that don’t turn out good enough to show become pet dogs like our Homily and get spoilt and sleep all day!

Computers

I’m a geek, I admit it. Ever since I’ve had access to a computer I’ve liked to push it to it’s limits, take it apart, put it back together etc. I did a degree course in Internet computing which brought me into the world of web development, which I now work in; but that doesn’t mean I don’t find time to work on my own projects/websites. One of which is Twitnote, a Twitter related project that Zoe and I are working on, due to be launched shortly.

I can’t talk about computers without mentioning macs really- my platform of choice and the platform which seems to be present in nearly every room of our house. Yes I started off with Windows PC’s but then when I was at uni I bought myself an iBook. Then when Zoe moved in, she brought her macbook with her (inspired by my iBook), shortly after that the desktop PC got replaced with an iMac. Now we have 2 iPhones and the aforementioned MacBook and iMac (not to mention the airport) and the only PC we have actually running is a linux server!

Aberystwyth

This is where I spent my university years. It’s a beautiful town city that makes its income from the 12,000 students that live there and turns into a slightly bleak tourist town in the summer. I love the place and I’m glad I went to uni there as I met some great people and made some good friends; and of course had a good social life as well as spending lots of last minute hours working on projects and and of course my dissertation. Random fact: last time I checked Aberystwyth had the highest pub:student ratio and (correct me if I’m wrong) the highest student:church ratio!!

Wedding

12/12/2008: Our wedding day, the best day of my life.. so far. I don’t like the whole best day of my life thing that much as it kindof means the rest of your life is destined to be worse!! But anyway it was wonderful and couldn’t have gone better, bar the odd usher having to get mud scrubbed off his suit at the last minute! I love my life with Zoe and I don’t regret anything. Yes we ‘argue’ but nothing major, it’s always over stupid things, and I think it would be unnatural if we didn’t right?

Softie

Erm.. I guess this is in reference to me generally being a nice husband who doesn’t mind spoiling his wife now and then, especially if she is feeling down or upset about something..

Done!

There you go… five things, but if anyone else would like to give me five things to elaborate on I will add them!